Re: [PATCH] media: qcom: venus: flip the venus/iris switch

[Stephan Gerhold <stephan.gerhold@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 05:18:18PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> With the Iris and Venus driver having more or less feature parity for
> "HFI 6xx" platforms and with Iris gaining support for SC7280, flip the
> switch. Use Iris by default for SM8250 and SC7280, the platforms which
> are supported by both drivers, and use Venus only if Iris is not
> compiled at all. Use IS_ENABLED to strip out the code and data
> structures which are used by the disabled platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

I think this will break the ChromeOS SC7280 platform, because the new
Iris driver does not (yet) support the non-PAS/TZ startup sequence.
Given that this is a dead (never released) platform, it probably does
not make sense blocking the switch from Venus to Iris, but it should be
made clear in the commit message at least. And perhaps the affected DTs
should be changed to disable Venus/Iris then.

It would be easy to add support for the non-PAS/TZ startup sequence in
the Iris driver. The changes exist already [1], they are just stuck on
the never ending discussion about how to model the additional
video-firmware IOMMU entry in the DT for newer platforms [2]. Perhaps
the existing legacy usage in SC7280 would be enough precedent to land
this patch as-is, although I don't have access to any SC7280-based board
for testing.

Thanks,
Stephan

[1]: https://git.codelinaro.org/stephan.gerhold/linux/-/commit/14db4bfae9279a0e69a0a9d2ccdd684658916431
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250823155349.22344-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/